| ACT | American College Testing |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
| AP | Advanced Placement |
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| BIA | Bureau of Indian Affairs |
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| CAS | Curriculum Assessment Service |
| CIRP | Cooperative Institutional Research Program |
| CNSTAT | Committee on National Statistics |
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| EWC | Engineering Workforce Commission |
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| GRE | Graduate Record Examination |
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| HACU | Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities |
| HBCU | Historically Black College or University |
| HEGIS | Higher Education General Information Survey |
| HES | Higher Education Survey |
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| IPEDS | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System |
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| NAEP | National Assessment of Educational Progress |
| NCES | National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NPSAS | National Postsecondary Student Aid Study |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
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| PUMS | Public Use Microdata Samples |
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| R&D; | research and development |
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| S&E; | science and engineering |
| SAT | Scholastic Aptitude Test |
| SDR | Survey of Doctorate Recipients |
| SED | Survey of Earned Doctorates |
| SIPP | Survey of Income and Program Participation |
| SME | science, mathematics, and engineering |
| SRS | Division of Science Resources Studies, National Science Foundation |
| STPDS | Scientific and Technical Personnel Data System |
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